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Today, Elsewhere

Books that sizzle: The Conversation considers summer in relation to Australian literature, and looks forward to upcoming releases including Suzanne McCourt’s The Lost Child and Stephen Orr’s One Boy Missing.

Appropriate on such a scorcher of a day: Read more

Books for a Heatwave

It’s set to reach 43 degrees celsius in Melbourne today, and the rest of the country isn’t faring much better. So if you can, we recommend sitting in a cooled room with a cold drink and one of these chilly titles.

Today, Elsewhere

The Rosie Project was the most requested book last year at ACT libraries, according to the Age.

Just Say No: an argument for straight-forward rejection letters.

Are you a writer? Read more

More wonderful praise for Elena Ferrante

‘Some writers you read and move on, but every now and then you read one whose work knocks you back against the wall,’ says NPR. ‘This happened to me with the great Italian novelist Elena Ferrante.’

The Age wrote of volumes one and two of the Neapolitan series, Read more

Laurie Halse Anderson’s The Impossible Knife of Memory

Laurie Halse Anderson’s latest novel, The Impossible Knife of Memory, is ‘a riveting study of a psychologically scarred teenager, peeling back layers of internal defenses to reveal a girl’s deepest wounds,’ says Publishers Weekly.

‘Tis the season

The Text office will be closed from the afternoon of 24 December 2013, reopening on 6 January 2014.

In the meantime, we wish you a happy and safe holiday season.

fridayfrivolity

This is our last #fridayfrivolity of the year. We’ll revel in literary oddities again in 2014. Have a safe and happy holiday!

14 places to talk to a stranger about books.

Literary facts about Christmas.

Today, Elsewhere

‘David Ireland offers a fiercely brilliant comic portrait of Australia in the grip of a dehumanising labour system’: The Unknown Industrial Prisoner, reviewed.

In praise of little books: a nod to the internet’s ‘too long; didn’t read’ syndrome.

Today, Elsewhere

Daniel Bergner, author of What Do Women Want?, spoke to Guernica about lust, the myth of female monogamy, and why ‘voyeurism is essential to good writing’.

Building a library of the mind.

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